Browsing the archives for the Google category

From the archives: What I thought of Google in 2006

This post from Jul 7, 2006 is a really interesting read with the modern e-commerce landscape in mind. This post dates from when Google had just introduced Checkout and everyone was up in arms with eBay for not accepting it. I’ll let you read this one first and then give you my commentary underneath. Original [...]

eBay discontinues AdCommerce because Best Match is perfect, awesome & loved by everyone

eBay is discontinuing AdCommerce because Best Match is so great, sellers have no need to do any other advertising of their items. Well, ok, they didn’t say that in so many words but that is pretty close to the reason eBay gives for pulling the plug on their pay-per-click ad service. Oh and also, eBay [...]

Let’s talk about: How to force a person to follow you on Twitter

That sentence above was the top search term bringing people to this website a few days ago. Now, apparently it was taking them to this article about Twitter limits, which is fine, but it worries me that people are searching for this exact phrase. So I want to have a little talk with this searcher, [...]

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